Outside the Beltway

Unequal treatment for senior officials is the norm, like it or not.

The World’s Greatest Deliberative Body is not doing its job.

A small step to reclaim Congress’ rightful authority.

An entire Congressionally-created agency seems to have been shut down by fiat.

Nunes and Grinell.

The only let him go so long out of kindness I suppose.

Political grandstanding over dubious claims of privilege.

He owes over half a billion so far. That creates significant conflicts of interest.

A new report puts the conversation in a different light.

A special counsel has declined to prosecute the President but his rationale was painful.

Yet more evidence of an unfit, unstable candidate.

The Wall Street Journal failed a key test.

We’re in uncharted waters.

A weird twist to the online leak story.

The United States has not learned from Snowden and Manning.

The Pentagon Papers guy laments that there are too few like him.

It’s becoming a sad joke.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

As more details emerge about the documents he stole, defenders are falling away.

Why would the Trump team release a document that casts them in such a bad light?

“Declassification, even by the President, must follow established procedures.” (Trump Administration 2018)

While enormous, the commander-in-chief’s control over state secrets is not absolute.

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

It’s complicated, hard to prove, and politically fraught.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

The 45th President was a psychopath.

Because of course he did.

Former President Trump routinely broke the law with respect to protecting public records.

How do we know when our government is telling us the truth?

Trump’s last Secretary of Defense is being stymied by preclearance review.

Fear of Chinese spies led to a bizarre and illegal operation within the Commerce Department.

A bizarre case of bureaucratic ineptitude.

Yet more flouting of the rule of law by the Trump administration.

Yet again, this administration puts Trump’s political fortunes ahead of the national interest.

Richard Burr, Jim Inhofe, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler should go to jail.

A Federal Judge in Washington, D.C. has ruled against the Trump Administration’s latest effort to stonewall Congressional inquiries.

Lock her up?

And now we have evidence of a clear effort at a coverup by high-level White House employees. The question would be, what did the President know and when did he know it?

In what is hopefully the final review of the mater, an internal State Department view finds no wrongdoing with regard to Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.

The same Republicans who were outraged over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server are silent about the use of private apps by Trump officials.

Yes, officials who follow the law are “whistleblowers.”

Not surprisingly, President Trump told Russian officials early on that he didn’t care if Russia interfered in the 2016 election.

A note in the whistleblower’s complaint suggests other transcripts, like the Zelensky call, that have been buried.

A Harvard law professor makes my case better than I did.

Yet another violation of norms by the 45th President.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been indicted on seventeen counts under the Espionage Act arising out of his role in the Chelsea Manning affair.

The U.S. military will no longer release reports regarding the success, or failure, of the current strategy in Afghanistan.

Six Democrats are boycotting on principle. Four Republicans don’t care.

A new poll shows that a majority of Americans say they won’t vote for President Trump in 2020. but that’s only half the battle for Democrats